Wake up and smell the coffee generation

Celebrating corporation round and round we thought stirring up another cup of too many wrongs to mention

When greed is hurting you to world war freak and you label truth the conspiracy round we go, so you better take them up.

For a moment of clarity.

Welcome to Redacta tonight, VIP.

I'm Lee Camp.

Today, my guest is someone I view as a bit of a legend. He wrote the New York

Times bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hitman. And it was one of the earliest books to wake

me up to the fact that the United States has a colossal economic empire, along with its military empire, that forces struggling

countries to drown in debt, basically a feudal system of nations that is responsible for

the death and suffering of millions of people over generations.

If other nations refuse to take on our economic peonage

that we offer them on a silver platter,

then we try to bribe their leaders.

Then if that doesn't work, we threaten their leaders.

And if that doesn't work, sometimes those leaders are assassinated.

In confessions of an economic hitman, John Perkins revealed his role in that process, a role he is now sickened by today.

Nowadays, he works tirelessly to help create a better world, one built on life and peace rather than death and war. Here's my conversation with John Perkins.

John, thanks for joining me. My pleasure to be with you. I just want to start off by saying it's a real thrill for me because your books were very

significant in waking me up, getting me outside the story of the corporate media that they feed

us.

I imagine you hear that a fair amount from people.

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